The China-Bomb debate Put to rest

rbpru wrote:
There is far to much personal bias one the part of some people to ever admit that the Chinese or other off shore countries can produce a quality product.

Of course the gadget they are reading this message on most likely came from there.

Add to this the belief that since LT tires are designed to a more robust set of test standards, they must be better than "P" or "ST" tires. Totally ignoring of course, the fact that the same factory turning out poor quality P and ST tires is also making their LT to the same quality level.

I have seen lots of opinions on failure rates but I have yet to see any data to support it.

It makes little difference anyway; if buying LTs gives a person the illusion of improved safety, they will sleep better no matter what the data says.

In the end it is your money and a free country, you are free to buy whatever product makes you happy based on any set of opinions or data you like.

The ST vs. LT controversy will never be resolved, it will simply fade away like the bias against the Japanese made product in the 1950's and early 60's.

Their is very little bias against products made in China just because they are made there. There are however many personal experiences documented on this forum with issues with ST tires made in China. How can you say there is no data? When the Casita factory changed their tire supplier (due to excessive failures) to a non Chinese brand S/T tire (back when there were such suppliers available)that my friend is data. When it is documented in the news that a Chinese tire company was leaving out critical components of passenger tires causing numerous failures that is also data. You have to look at all the information that is out there and not disregard or blow off what does not support your position.